Isamu Hirabayashi
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25-06-1972
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Place of Birth
25-06-1972
Birthday
Cancer
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0
Total Films
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Also Known As (male)
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Place of Birth
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actor
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producer
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director
43 Works
writer
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6 LEGS
A mother, a father and their child are in a dark box. The child is getting a cough constantly. The mother asks the father why we are getting such a strange situation. The father says he can't understand this situation. The bombing sound can be heard from far away. What is happening now?0.0
Year:
2020
Shell and Joint
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.6.0
Year:
2019
Shell and Joint
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.6.0
Year:
2019
Shell and Joint
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.6.0
Year:
2019
Shell and Joint
Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.6.0
Year:
2019
Matou
The cycle of life, in reverse.4.5
Year:
2018
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Six Stories based on Six Songs.7.0
Year:
2018
A Story Constructed of 17 Pieces of Space and 1 Maggot
A human reincarnated as a maggot begins to explore the potential for his new existence and slowly succumbs to the routines of his form.0.0
Year:
2017
5+Camera
During an extended power outage, the members of a photoshoot begin to test the limits of their consumption.0.0
Year:
2017
Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis
Shimajiro and friends embark on a journey through the desert to help young Coco reunite with her mother after being separated in a fierce sandstorm.8.0
Year:
2017
Mountain
An overturned dung beetle confronts social exclusion and the promises of a benevolent mountain spirit in this delightful short pregnant with meaning. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film0.0
Year:
2017
Shimajiro in Bookland
This is the fourth movie starring a tiger boy named Shimajiro.6.0
Year:
2016
Heaven
The world presented in a series of close-ups as death begets life.0.0
Year:
2016
Keshinomi
An old man and a grandson are walking in snow. A pregnant woman and a midwife are talking in the hospital.5.0
Year:
2015
Octopus
Squid have 10 legs. Octopuses have 8 legs. Added together, that’s 18 legs.0.0
Year:
2015
Shimajiro and the Mother Tree
7.0
Year:
2015
Shimajiro and the Mother Tree
7.0
Year:
2015
Shimajiro and the Mother Tree
7.0
Year:
2015
Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 2
Astonishing, mysterious, eccentric, adorable, melancholic, sensual and delightful - the Volume 2 of the weird and fascinating world of Japanese independent animation which has been flourishing and stronger than ever.0.0
Year:
2014
Shimajiro and the Song of the Whale
Shimajiro, who helped an injured baby whale Kuu-chan, takes care of Kuu-chan who wants to return to her mother and keeps her in touch. In order to return Ku-chan, who was about to be sent to the aquarium, to her mother, Shimajiro rides on her back and sets out on a journey toward the southern sea.5.0
Year:
2014
Shimajiro and the Song of the Whale
Shimajiro, who helped an injured baby whale Kuu-chan, takes care of Kuu-chan who wants to return to her mother and keeps her in touch. In order to return Ku-chan, who was about to be sent to the aquarium, to her mother, Shimajiro rides on her back and sets out on a journey toward the southern sea.5.0
Year:
2014
Shimajiro and the Song of the Whale
Shimajiro, who helped an injured baby whale Kuu-chan, takes care of Kuu-chan who wants to return to her mother and keeps her in touch. In order to return Ku-chan, who was about to be sent to the aquarium, to her mother, Shimajiro rides on her back and sets out on a journey toward the southern sea.5.0
Year:
2014
SOLITON
A man kills someone on the battlefield and rescues someone in the devastated district.5.0
Year:
2014
SOLITON
A man kills someone on the battlefield and rescues someone in the devastated district.5.0
Year:
2014
SOLITON
A man kills someone on the battlefield and rescues someone in the devastated district.5.0
Year:
2014
Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 1
A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation.0.0
Year:
2013
Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!
Shimajiro to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana (しまじろうと フフの だいぼうけん ～すくえ！七色の花～?, Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!) is a 2013 Japanese children's live action/anime film. It's the first film to feature the character Shimajirō. The film is directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and was release on March 15, 2013.0.0
Year:
2013
Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!
Shimajiro to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana (しまじろうと フフの だいぼうけん ～すくえ！七色の花～?, Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!) is a 2013 Japanese children's live action/anime film. It's the first film to feature the character Shimajirō. The film is directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and was release on March 15, 2013.0.0
Year:
2013
Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!
Shimajiro to Fufu no Daibōken: Sukue! Nanairo no Hana (しまじろうと フフの だいぼうけん ～すくえ！七色の花～?, Shimajiro and Fufu's Great Adventure: Save the Seven-Colored Flower!) is a 2013 Japanese children's live action/anime film. It's the first film to feature the character Shimajirō. The film is directed by Isamu Hirabayashi and was release on March 15, 2013.0.0
Year:
2013
Ninja & Soldier
Two eight-year-old boys compete in a game of childish bravado. Ken is a Ninja, Nito a child soldier from the Congo who was forced to kill his own mother. Their naïve game addresses cruel realities, and they talk about their differences and what they have in common. Accompanied by contrasting graphics, the film explores the types of acts of which humankind is capable.0.0
Year:
2013
Ninja & Soldier
Two eight-year-old boys compete in a game of childish bravado. Ken is a Ninja, Nito a child soldier from the Congo who was forced to kill his own mother. Their naïve game addresses cruel realities, and they talk about their differences and what they have in common. Accompanied by contrasting graphics, the film explores the types of acts of which humankind is capable.0.0
Year:
2013
663114
I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.5.2
Year:
2012
Cockroach
My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood.0.0
Year:
2010
Shikasha
A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.0.0
Year:
2010
Aramaki
A man, stacks of rocks, a forest.8.0
Year:
2010
Kibiso
This worm, born in silk, talks and sings about the history and art of his hometown.0.0
Year:
2010
Babin
In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy.0.0
Year:
2008
Doron
One day a man had a strange audition for the movie. But he couldn't make acting good.0.0
Year:
2006
Conversation with Nature
A special Decoder allows people to have conversations with nature.0.0
Year:
2005
Textism
A bold and unsettling short film that combines mysteriously striking images, on-screen captions, and computer-generated speech narration.5.8
Year:
2003
Helmut
The project which makes a certain change appear by wearing. Helmut will give a shock or a burst of laughter on him who covered or the outskirts of it.0.0
Year:
2003
Helmut
The project which makes a certain change appear by wearing. Helmut will give a shock or a burst of laughter on him who covered or the outskirts of it.0.0
Year:
2003
Penis
Director Isamu Hirabayashi 21st Century Asian Design Competition (sponsored by Kyoto University of Art and Design) Grand Prize Winner8.0
Year:
2001